US 12,294,446 B2
Methods, infrastructure equipment, and communications devices
Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basingstoke (GB); and Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/797,110
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 19, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/054171
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/170503, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20159136 (EP), filed on Feb. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0376779 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 7/204 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2024.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01)
CPC H04B 7/2041 (2013.01) [H04B 7/18504 (2013.01); H04B 7/1851 (2013.01); H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); H04W 52/028 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a non-terrestrial network (NTN) of a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
providing a plurality of spot beams, each of the spot beams providing a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from communications devices within a coverage region formed by the each of the spot beams;
determining, for one or more of the spot beams, that the coverage region formed by the one or more of the spot beams is at least partially located within a geographical region in which NTN services are not permitted, and
changing a utilization state of each of the one or more of the spot beams from a first utilization state to a second utilization state.